Police have now gotten involved in the controversy surrounding the perimeter wall erected around Elmore Stoutt High School. Governor Augustus Jaspert said the police department’s involvement in the matter is as a result of the ‘special report’ from the Office […]
Archive for December, 2018
I’ll graciously step aside: PVIM asking governor to remove me as Opposition Leader
Opposition Leader Andrew Fahie has wished his successor Ronnie Skelton well as the incoming holder of the post. Fahie is expected to be booted from the post shortly, considering that the Skelton-led Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) now has the […]
Turnbull wanted to join VIP last year, asked for Deputy Premier post
Second District Representative Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull reportedly tried to join the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) late last year and asked to be seated as Deputy Premier if/when the VIP gets elected into government. VIP Chairman Andrew Fahie made that disclosure […]
Dominican Republic native accused of buggering, raping woman on boat
A Dominican Republic man, who allegedly held a woman at knifepoint and had non-consensual anal and vaginal sex with her on a cargo boat last week, has been charged with rape. Pedro Antonio Brown de la Cruz, a 32-year-old cargo boat […]
Projects piling but funding slow: CDB withholds $$ till govt spends old $15M
It has been about a year since the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) gave the BVI government access to 15 million of the $65 million loan for territorial rehabilitation and reconstruction. But, while public infrastructures remain in ruins, only about $5 million […]
Nearly 20 residents will spend another Christmas in shelters
By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff More than a year after the onslaught of the September 2017 hurricanes, nearly twenty individuals will be spending another Christmas at emergency shelters in Long Trench on Tortola and in North Sound on Virgin […]
23yo gets suspended sentence for 42 grams of marijuana
A Johnson’s Ghut resident walked away with a suspended sentence this month after being held with 42.2 grams of cannabis back in 2016. Twenty-three-year-old Nickhoy Phillips was sentenced after pleading guilty to two counts of possession of a cannabis. He […]
Two more outstanding audit reports tabled, 2017 to be laid next year
Two more outstanding financial audit reports have been laid before the House of Assembly. Premier and Minister of Finance Dr D Orlando Smith laid the Auditor General’s Report for the financial years 2014 and 2015 during Thursday’s ongoing sitting of […]
Premier to request $138M to continue operations till 2019 budget passes
Premier and Minister of Finance Dr D Orlando Smith will be seeking permission from the House of Assembly to dip into the Consolidated Fund and withdraw $138.9 million so government can continue to operate after the start of the new […]
Fahie wary, says new bill on economic substance ‘very cagey’
Leader of Opposition Andrew Fahie has said he is wary of the legislation that government is introducing to keep off the European Union’s (EU) blacklist of noncompliant tax haven jurisdictions. The bill entitled the Economic Substance (Companies and Limited Partnerships) […]
